Story of the attachment between the mouse and the frog: how they tied their legs together with a long string, and how a raven carried off the mouse, and how the frog was suspended (in the air) and lamented and repented of having attached himself to an animal of a different species instead of sorting with one of his own kind.

از قضا موشی و چغزی با وفا ** بر لب جو گشته بودند آشنا

As it happened, a mouse and a faithful frog had become friends on the bank of a river.

هر دو تن مربوط میقاتی شدند ** هر صباحی گوشه‌ای می‌آمدند

Both of them were bound to (keep) a (daily) tryst: every morning they would come into a nook,

نرد دل با هم‌دگر می‌باختند ** از وساوس سینه می‌پرداختند

(Where) they played heart-and-soul with one another and emptied their breasts of evil (suspicious) thoughts.

هر دو را دل از تلاقی متسع ** هم‌دگر را قصه‌خوان و مستمع 2635

The hearts of both swelled (with joy) from meeting: they recited stories and listened to each other,

رازگویان با زبان و بی‌زبان ** الجماعه رحمه را تاویل دان

Telling secrets with and without tongue, knowing how to interpret (the Tradition), “A united party is a (Divine) mercy.”

آن اشر چون جفت آن شاد آمدی ** پنج ساله قصه‌اش یاد آمدی

Whenever the exultant (mouse) consorted with the merry (frog), a five years' tale would come into his mind.